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William Congreve Inspirational Quotes (84)

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I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
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Words are the weak support of cold indifference love has no language to be heard.
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Mr Witwould: Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies. Mrs Millamant: Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose.
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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
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O, she is the antidote to desire.
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Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
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Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
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I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
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You are a woman: you must never speak what you think your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
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A little scorn is alluring.
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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.
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Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
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I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!
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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
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Women like flames have a destroying power never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
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I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.
William Congreve
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